re: Confirmed case of Ebola in New York City

Why is anybody equating Ebola with the HIV virus?

That's ridiculous. With the exception of getting HIV thru a blood transfusion, personal behavior determines who is at risk for HIV. Don't engage in any of that high-risk behavior, and you won't get the HIV virus.

Stop being such a drama queen, VB.

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Might be longer than 21 days

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That same study from that same guy keeps getting bandied about. Even his mathematical model says that there is an 88% chance that the incubation period is no longer than 21 days. What little we have seen of the disease is that most people get symptoms right around 10 days. In the off chance that .1% of the infected will develop symptoms after 21 days then we still have very little to no chance of an outbreak.

So we can double up on our quarantine costs over this worry that no one has seen yet while increasing the pressure on the people trying to maintain quarantine... or... we can go by what we know and look for any signs that someone could develop symptoms after 21 days. Should be easy to spot in this country with so few people infected.

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quarantine costs

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Que?

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No problem at all . . . . except the fact public health officials are trying desperately to trace all contacts which occurred while the Doctor was asymptomatic. The bowling alley is closed down. Etc.

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I don't see a problem with this. Track down the ppl so that if they get sick they know it might be ebola and not the flu or sinus infection. That way they can notify the first responders so they can protect themselves. As far as closing down the bowling alley for the day or a couple of days that is smart as well. The virus dies within hours of contact with oxygen so let it die (even though it probably wasn't spread anywhere) and it helps stop the public panic.

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Meanwhile you are saying, the Doctor exercised poor judgement, lacked common sense. Another poster is saying he should be "shot in the face."

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The doctor did exercise poor judgement by going bowling when he wasn't feeling a 100% during the incubation period of a disease that he spent weeks fighting in west africa. IMO he should have aired on the side of caution and gone to bed if he was tired. The lack of common sense refers to the nurse that flew and the lab tech that went on a cruise ship. I was lumping them all into one post.

I doubt you have to worry about the bowling alley shutting down.

I promise you nobody will be bowling there for weeks.

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Agree 100%.

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Bound to happen sooner or later. Or it could be that soup I got in Princeton 10 days ago... (Ebola ref)

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I doubt you have to worry about the bowling alley shutting down.

I promise you nobody will be bowling there for weeks.

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It could be closing down for a professional cleaning. Lord knows a bowling alley named "The Gutter" in NYC could probably use a solid cleaning.

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The lack of common sense refers to the nurse that flew and the lab tech that went on a cruise ship. I was lumping them all into one post.

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Again, you apparently have not read the CDC guidelines. If there is danger of contagion, we know how to limit that . . . isolate the patient from contact, aka quarantine. It isn't complicated.

But this insistence that folks who followed CDC policy to the letter are somehow irresponsible is horseshite. If folks follow directives, they are not irresponsible. Your extrapolation now to the nurse and lab worker is dumb too.

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But this insistence that folks who followed CDC policy to the letter are somehow irresponsible is horseshite. If folks follow directives, they are not irresponsible. Your extrapolation now to the nurse and lab worker is dumb too.

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Come on. At least admit that the lab worker on the cruise ship wasn't using good judgement. In the event that she became symptomatic while on the cruise she would be on a boat crammed in with 4,000 other people in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Again, you apparently have not read the CDC guidelines. If there is danger of contagion, we know how to limit that . . . isolate the patient from contact, aka quarantine. It isn't complicated.

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I have, I even linked an article describing the new ones for you in a thread last week.

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But this insistence that folks who followed CDC policy to the letter are somehow irresponsible is horseshite. If folks follow directives, they are not irresponsible

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Flying when you have a fever and know you treated an ebola patient even if the CDC gave you clearance is dumb and exercising bad judgement. Going on a cruise ship, or what my med micro teacher called it a petri dish in the sea, when you handled is not exercising good judgement, but not nearly as bad as the nurse.

Luckily, the lab worker never developed symptoms on the cruise so their is no chance of transmission and to date noone from the flight has become ill. However, if those 2, especially the nurse with the fever, had stayed home the public panic would be much less.